# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-coates
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:37:07.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-coates"
name: "Paul Coates"
slug: "paul-coates"
description: "William Paul Coates is an American publisher, printer and community activist. In 1978, he founded the Black Classic Press (BCP), devoted to publishing works significant to people of African descent, particularly previously out-of-print books. He also established the printing company BCP Digital Printing in 1995. He is the father of author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates."
tagline: "Publisher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Coates_120571.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.588413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Coates_(publisher)"
    title: "Paul Coates (publisher)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111145663"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations